World Pasta Day: 10 Little-Known Facts About Pasta

By Srikanto Mandal 25 October, 2022

October 25 is celebrated as World Pasta Day, one of the world's favorite and most versatile foods.

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National Pasta Day is celebrated in the United States on October 17.

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Did you know that there are 33 types of pasta in the world, classified into 5 groups.

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In the 1980s, macaroni was considered a ‘blue-collared’ variety of pasta.

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Cooked pasta can be frozen and eaten again within 3 months.

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Pasta dough is made with durum wheat flour, which differentiates it from regular noodles.

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Italy exports about 1.7 million tons of pasta a year.

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According to Greek mythology, God Vulcan invented a device to make strings of dough, later perceived as Spaghetti

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Spaghetti is long, thin, hard, cylindrical pasta that is a staple of traditional Italian cuisine.

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Tube-shaped pasta of various lengths and diameters is known as rigatoni pasta.

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